Listen to Dolly Parton's New Single "Head Over High Heels"

Last month, country icon Dolly Parton released her 43rd studio album Pure & Simple, entirely composed of love songs. Dolly first recorded two of the songs on Pure & Simple back in the '70s (and one is from her Dollywood show My People), but the rest are new ones recorded just for the album. On Thursday, she premiered the lyric video for new single “Head Over High Heels,” and it’s just as pink as you’d expect a Dolly Parton lyric video to be — pink flowers, pink letters, pink dresses, pink lipstick, pink shoes, and a bedazzled pink T-shirt bearing the name of the song.

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Dolly celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary earlier this year, and says her relationship with her husband, Carl Dean, still inspires a lot of her music. “When I did this whole album, I thought of him a lot, because I thought of all the feelings and all the things we’d been through in our life,” she told Cosmopolitan.com. “I often think of Carl when I’m writing songs, even funny songs, because he’s got a great sense of humor, which is one of the reasons we’ve stayed together for so long. He’s pleasant and fun to be around.”

Dolly says she felt like this “was just a good year to write an album of love songs,” and notes that Carl isn’t the only person she thinks about when she writes music. “I actually get ideas from his people, my people, friends — things that people are going through that I think would make a good story," she explains. “I can pull off of their emotions because what they’re going through touches me deep, if they’re sad or things have gone awry. It gives me a chance to write for them.”